Arts Archive

Freelance, but not on furlough payment – the Croydon musician caught in criteria trap

Over a million people do not qualify for furlough and self-employment payments, including those who have no self-employed income during …

by Felice Southwell/ June 24, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Coronavirus, Features/

Lewisham artist’s tapestry tales of lockdown life

Embroidery artist Tina Crawford has made the most out of lockdown, using isolation to engage with new audiences and start …

by Edward John/ June 23, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Coronavirus, Features, Society/

Artists donate works to enhance NHS staff spaces

Health service workers at the Royal London Hospital and the Mile End Hospital are to be treated to artworks in …

by Jiaxuan LI/ June 17, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Community, Health, Tower Hamlets/

East London student sessions make music to lighten the lockdown

Musicians around the globe have continued creating and releasing music online with a view to entertain audiences during the lockdown. …

by Shruti Nanda/ June 11, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Events, Features, Lockdown lifestyle, Music/

Lewisham arts festival Brockley Max goes online

The nine-day local arts festival Brockley Max 2020 has gone online this week for the first time because of the …

by Zixin Fan/ June 3, 2020/ Arts, Events, Lewisham, Music/

Virus forces cancellation of Deptford Pride 2020

Deptford Pride 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID-19, joining a long list of LGBT+ events to be cancelled this …

by Felice Southwell/ June 2, 2020/ Arts, Lewisham, Music, Society/

Lewisham NHS Choir join X-Factor Winner in frontline staff tribute song

The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir have released a charity song with 2008 X-Factor winner Alexandra Burke in a touching …

by Felice Southwell/ June 2, 2020/ Arts, Community, Lewisham, Music/

Hackney arts charity and cultural organisation reaches crowdfunding target

A Hackney arts charity and cultural organisation have reached their crowdfunding target and raised over £17,800 to open a new …

by Rebecca Huber/ May 20, 2020/ Arts, Education, Hackney, Housing, Local News, News/

UK’s primary black-led theatre company is moving to Croydon

The UK’s primary black-led touring theatre company is moving to a theatre hall in Croydon, as their new art rehearsal …

by Valentina Romagnoli/ March 18, 2020/ Arts, Croydon, News/

Lost and Found: Hackney Museum to exhibit rediscovered photos from the 1980s

The photograph of protesters in Hackney shown above could have been taken last week at a climate rally or an …

by Joshua Lamb/ March 14, 2020/ Arts, Features, Hackney, Local News, Society/

Telegraph Hill Festival cancelled due to fears over COVID-19 outbreak

The Telegraph Hill festival has been cancelled due to fears over the COVID-19 outbreak. The local festival, which was due …

by Rainer Brittain-Catlin/ March 14, 2020/ Arts, Lewisham, News/

Croydon cinema puts on dementia-friendly screenings

A cinema in Croydon is screening films for people suffering with dementia at the price of £1 and their carers …

by Valentina Romagnoli/ March 6, 2020/ Arts, Croydon, News/

Great Hall is back

Graduation ceremonies for Goldsmiths, University of London will be back in the Great Hall in summer 2020 after completion of …

by Ibrahim Banat/ February 14, 2020/ Arts, Business, Education, Lead Stories, Lewisham, Local News, News, Society/

Migration museum reopens in Lewisham Shopping Centre

The UK’s first Migration Museum has been relocated to Lewisham shopping centre after a two-and-a-half-year residency in Lambeth. Starting today, …

by Anna Mariya Tesfaye/ February 14, 2020/ Arts, Lewisham/

My Home is Not My Home

Reema’s story is heart-rending but by no means unique.  She describes how she was brought to Yorkshire from Qatar in …

by Melina Havoutis/ February 3, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Employment, Lead Stories, Uncategorized, Videos/

Canary Wharf Winter Lights

Canary Wharf is welcoming back the popular Winter Lights festival, where people can enjoy the beauty of the light artworkscreated …

by Jason Tzu-Kuan Lu/ January 24, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Events, Lead Stories, Tower Hamlets/

History of East London print industry on show

East London had a thriving printing trade in the last century providing jobs for thousands of people. But technological changes transformed …

by Ibrahim Banat/ January 23, 2020/ Arts, Arts Features, Events, Lead Stories, Tower Hamlets/

Hackney help for animals injured in Australian fires

A craft studio in Hackney has found an imaginative way of helping the animals injured in the Australian bushfires. Hundreds …

by Ellen Coughlan/ January 16, 2020/ Arts, Environment, Hackney, Lead Stories/

Dick Whittington and His Cat: A pantomime take on Windrush at Hackney Empire

It’s 1948 in London, and if you swap the West Country for the West Indies, you have the two heroes of Dick Whittington …

by Clara Hill/ December 21, 2019/ Arts/

A Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale – a strange blend of panto and champagne feminism

“I am a woman and I have lived a life men made for me…I am a woman and I will …

by Georgina Gambetta/ December 21, 2019/ Arts, Features, General Features/

Not just a home and more than a venue: performance space forced to relocate

For some performers a music venue closing down may just mean the end of a regular gig. For the residents …

by Charles Woodham/ December 19, 2019/ Arts, Music, Tower Hamlets, Uncategorized/

Facadism and the City: the veneer of age disguising brash modernity

Like many cities of ancient origin, London’s landscape is predicated on the old being enveloped by the new. The ancient …

by Georgina Gambetta/ December 18, 2019/ Arts, News/

Art transforms the chicken shop landscape of South Norwood

Embedded in the jungle of chicken shops, greasy spoon cafes, and kebab takeaways on Portland Road, in South Norwood, you …

by Eleonora Girotto/ December 16, 2019/ Arts/

Shakespeare returns to Shoreditch as Curtain Theatre finds go on show

The Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch was Britain’s second playhouse and home to William Shakespeare’s company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men before they moved onto …

by Sean Russell/ December 12, 2019/ Arts/

Fluff, scraps of wood and old toys turn into micro-art by local children

Fluff, discarded scraps of wood and broken toys were amongst the materials used by artist Tim Spooner and Year 2 …

by Tom Mcghie/ December 10, 2019/ Arts/

Iconic grass roots music venue re-vamped by young volunteers

The 100-year-old facade of The Macbeth public house could have been carved from a Dickens tale- a sore thumb among …

by Lois Borny/ December 9, 2019/ Arts, Arts Features, Music/

School ‘proud’ to be part of artist Steve McQueen’s Year 3 project

Their faces were on the big-screen on huge billboards across the city for all to see, and now they’re on …

by Daisy Lester/ December 8, 2019/ Arts, Society, Tower Hamlets/

Crowned king of rap: New image of Stormzy in National Portrait Gallery

Heavy or not, even his crown appears unable to hold Croydon rapper Stormzy down, as 2019 has seen his career …

by Harry Thompson/ December 7, 2019/ Arts/

Photography sale to raise funds for refugee medical care

Prints by a number of renowned photographers are to be auctioned on Thursday to raise funds to support healthcare for …

by Clara Hill/ December 3, 2019/ Arts/

More than carnival: Brazilian couple combine art and jazz in new exhibition

“This that you see is Brazilian culture.” Ana Olivier told Eastlondonlines. “People think that Brazilian culture is just the carnival. …

by Eleonora Girotto/ November 27, 2019/ Arts, Society/

The art of the fold explored in skin, fabric and cardboard

A new exhibition examining the “aesthetic, conceptual, ethical and sociopolitical implications of folds” has opened in Lewisham Curated by Chahine …

by Celine Wadhera/ November 24, 2019/ Arts/

With Blur and Stormzy on their CVs, Lewisham and Croydon bid for Borough of Culture

The race is on! Lewisham and Croydon are competing to win their bids for London Borough of Culture for 2021 …

by Jordan Lane/ November 21, 2019/ Arts/

‘A lot of money for one sentence’ – Ducks, Newburyport wins Goldsmith Prize

A 1,000-page novel written as one long sentence won the prestigious Goldsmiths Prize For Fiction last night. The prize was …

by James Bayley/ November 21, 2019/ Arts/

Hackney Wick’s Stour Space’s future set for 150 years

Hackney Wick’s community arts hub Stour Space is set to have its future secured after a development in Hackney Wick …

by William Cotton/ October 24, 2019/ Arts, Hackney, Housing, Local News, News, Uncategorized/

Museum of London Docklands to exhibit the largest Bronze Age hoard ever discovered in capital

A significant hoard of Bronze Age metal is to be exhibited in the Museum of London Docklands, in Tower Hamlets. …

by Bella White/ October 24, 2019/ Arts, News, Tower Hamlets/

Whitechapel Bell Foundry owner hits back at anti-redevelopment campaign

The owner of Whitechapel Bell Foundry has told EastLondonLines that campaigners objecting to the redevelopment of the site have “misled …

by Bella White/ October 23, 2019/ Arts, Business, Local News, Tower Hamlets, Uncategorized/

Historic England steps in to save chapel, pub and chimney in Tower Hamlets

A 19th-century building named The Chapel in Oxford House, Bethnal Green, is among 36 at-risk sites saved for the nation this …

by Keji Marell Ricardo/ October 18, 2019/ Arts, Business, Environment, Local News, News, Tower Hamlets/

New Shoreditch mural from Oxfam highlights global warming

A new series of graffiti wall murals have been unveiled in Shoreditch, to raise awareness of global warming. The project  – …

by Bella White/ October 11, 2019/ Arts, Environment, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Uncategorized/

Banksy opens pop-up exhibition in Croydon

Banksy, the famed graffiti artist, has launched a surprise art installation in Croydon. The exhibit, in an empty retail space …

by Will Craigie/ October 3, 2019/ Arts, Croydon, News/

Goldsmiths’ finest- Fine Art Lecturer named 2020 Artist in Residence for the National Gallery.

A senior lecturer in the department of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London has been named 2020 Artist in Residence …

by Astra McKenzie/ September 5, 2019/ Arts, Arts Features, Lead Stories, Lewisham/